Yes. Thank you for the question. I hope you can hear me.
I presented evidence in the follow-up to Marshall, which was known as R v. Alex MacDonald, and prepared the 246-page report on this. I directly addressed that issue.
We have extensive documentation from the late 18th century on into the 19th century about the involvement of the Mi’kmaq in the lobster fishery. We actually have a picture from 1795 that shows a woman putting a lobster into a lobster pot.
We also know that before the treaties were signed, which was in the 1760s, the Mi’kmaq were involved in the lobster fishery. They used this.... They were a fishing people. They exercised that right communally, collectively. Lobster was one of the many species that they fished and sold to non-indigenous people in Nova Scotia and throughout the Maritimes.